A very rare case of nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma incidentally disclosed at 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Maffei, Pietro ^a   Marzola, Maria Cristina ^b   Musto, Alessandra ^b   Dassie, Francesca ^a   Grassetto, Gaia ^b   De Carlo, Eugenio ^a   Rampin, Lucia ^b   Chondrogiannis, Sotirios ^b   Massaro, Arianna ^b   Pelizzo, Maria Rosa ^a   Rubello, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Rovigo Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

111In octreoscan; 18F FDG; MRI; PET CT; pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IODINE 131; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859642066     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182485217     Document Type: Article

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